Guillermo del Toro may be a Golden Globe winner, but he's not letting the attention get to his head.
The "Shape of Water" director, who only nabbed his first (and second) Globe nomination this year, made a commitment to remaining true to himself.
"I've been very stubborn for many, many years," he said, which earned a few laughs from the assembled press backstage. "I only do the stories I want to tell. I only tell them the way I want to tell them. I've been doing this for 25 years and with the exception of 1995 with 'Mimic,' the movies I've made are the movies I feel I need to make."
He admitted that all of his films, in a way, are about his own life. It just so happens, he says, that "The Shape of Water" is relevant for the current time period.
"I think that you have to do movies about things that are close to you, that you understand," he said.
